J.K. Rowling has urged politicians to take trans activists’ threats seriously after the Mail on Sunday revealed protesters were planning to smash the offices of senior ministers.
This newspaper reported yesterday that Bash Back is set to target prominent political figures – including the Prime Minister and Health Secretary Wes Streeting.
Celebrated author Rowling took to social media platform X to share the MoS’s story and describe the militant group as part of a ‘totalitarian movement’.
Rowling wrote: ‘Who knows, now that trans activists aren’t only stalking, harassing, doxxing, threatening and physically assaulting women, our politicians might finally take the violence that’s such a key feature of this totalitarian movement seriously.’
Bash Back describes itself as a ‘trans-led direct action project focused on total transgender liberation’.
Back in August, the group claimed responsibility for vandalising Wes Streeting’s Ilford North constituency office after the Health Secretary acknowledged he was ‘deeply uncomfortable’ with an NHS trial of puberty-blocking drugs.
Police launched an investigation after the Health Secretary’s HQ had its windows smashed and the words ‘child killer’ daubed on the front in graffiti.
Sharing a photo of the front of Mr Streeting’s office shortly after it had been damaged, Bash Back wrote: ‘Don’t want action? Don’t kill kids.’
Author JK Rowling took to social media to share the Mail on Sunday’s revelations about trans activists targeting senior politicians
Bash Back’s first public attack was on Mr Streeting’s Ilford North constituency office in July, smashing windows and daubing ‘child killer’ on the shop front – a reference to the Health Secretary’s views on puberty blockers for children
Rowling said in her post that attacks on male politicians might mean lawmakers ‘finally take the violence that’s such a key feature of this totalitarian movement seriously’
The group’s latest conspiracy was uncovered by the Mail on Sunday after it urged members to form ‘cells’ and plot criminal damage offences against high-profile targets.
The gender warriors said: ‘If you think we’re done, you’ve got another thing coming. MP or PM, you’ve seen us once, we’ll see you again.’
A list of other potential marks include the Free Speech Union (FSU) and feminist organisation Sex Matters.
On Saturday night, journalists from this newspaper notified the Metropolitan Police and the parliamentary security services of our findings.
FSU founder Lord Young commissioned an independent security briefing about the group.
The report, obtained by MoS journalists, suggests British intelligence is monitoring the trans activist cells.
In a pamphlet, Bash Back claims to target ‘organisations that promote transphobic rhetoric – from banning hormones and puberty blockers, to confining us to or defining us out of categories of woman and man, to promoting conversion therapy and facilitating hideous harassment campaigns‘.
It says they ‘should come to expect us’, adding: ‘All of our targets have blood on their hands. We refuse to let them wash it off in peace.’
A transgender activist group is planning a series of attacks on senior politicians’ offices, including the Prime Minister’s
Militant group Bash Back has said its sights are also set on Wes Streeting – just months after vandalising his constituency office
After Bash Back’s first public attack was on Mr Streeting’s constituency office, the group has formulated an action guide – seen by this newspaper – for sympathisers to carry out similar attacks.
The document details how to avoid police detection as they plot criminal damage and steal equipment while filming their actions.
A security briefing on the group – also seen by The Mail on Sunday – reveals it has gone to extensive lengths to hide its identity, including removing internal metadata from public documents and using ultra-secure email systems.
The security memo says: ‘Given the first attack was on the office of a HM Gov minister, almost certainly the group responsible will be investigated by security services.’
Activists engaged in criminal activity could be among the near 3,000 profiles following Bash Back across social media platforms, the security document adds.
Maya Forstater, the chief executive of Sex Matters – also included in the list of offices that are potential targets – said: ‘After years in which police forces rolled out the red carpet for trans lobby groups and harassed women’s rights campaigners, it’s no wonder that Bash Back seems to believe it can cause criminal damage with impunity.’
A government spokesman said: ‘Threats, harassment, and vandalism are not only cowardly, they’re criminal and we will pursue anyone who targets politicians and their staff in this way, with the full force of the law.
‘The rhetoric from this group is dangerous and only seeks to distract from our work to improve the lives of trans people.’
In October members of the transgender activist group vandalised a feminist conference in Brighton
One of the Brighton Centre’s windows was smashed during the incident, which was carried out by members of Bash Back
Besides politicians, the group – which claims it is committed to ‘combating the rising tide of bigotry in the UK’ – have also unleashed attacks on a number of other high-profile targets.
On October 10 this year, members targeted the Brighton Centre, where the FiLiA Women’s Liberation Conference was being held.
The three-day event describes itself as ‘Europe’s biggest grassroots feminist conference’ but Bash Back claimed the conference would see ‘terfs gather every year to gloat about attacks on bodily autonomy and trans people’s safety’ – adding it would play host to ‘some of the most vicious transphobia in pop politics’.
The group also posted a video of the incident, with hooded protesters seen covering the venue in pink paint and showing smashed windows.
Ms Bindel, a journalist, broadcaster and self titled ‘feminist’ who is among those who attended this year’s conference, posted images of the destruction on X, which was then retweeted by JK Rowling.
Later the same month Bash Back targeted the headquarters of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) in London over their controversial interim guidance on banning trans people in single-sex spaces.
